I should know this by now, but do harddrives spin down when one goes
into winXP standby?


In my defense, I got confused in win98SE, when I thought they were
supposed to spin down if I went past the time limit set in the Power
part of the control panel (which isn't standby in the first place),
and yet they never seemed to. I don't care about that anymore, just my
question up top.

In message <(E-Mail Removed)> mm
<(E-Mail Removed)> was claimed to have wrote:

>I should know this by now, but do harddrives spin down when one goes
>into winXP standby?

They should, but it may vary depending on your hardware configuration.

mm wrote:

> I should know this by now, but do harddrives
> spin down when one goes into winXP standby?

Depends on how you have configured XP, you have separate control over that.

> In my defense, I got confused in win98SE, when I thought
> they were supposed to spin down if I went past the time
> limit set in the Power part of the control panel

Yes, that is separately specified in that version of Win and later.

> (which isn't standby in the first place),

> and yet they never seemed to.

That can happen with hardware that the OS cant control on that.

> I don't care about that anymore, just my question up top.

You can configure XP to do it either way.

On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 04:21:54 +1100, "Rod Speed"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>mm wrote:
>
>> I should know this by now, but do harddrives
>> spin down when one goes into winXP standby?
>
>Depends on how you have configured XP, you have separate control over that.
>
>> In my defense, I got confused in win98SE, when I thought
>> they were supposed to spin down if I went past the time
>> limit set in the Power part of the control panel
>
>Yes, that is separately specified in that version of Win and later.
>
>> (which isn't standby in the first place),
>
>> and yet they never seemed to.
>
>That can happen with hardware that the OS cant control on that.
>
>> I don't care about that anymore, just my question up top.
>
>You can configure XP to do it either way.
>
Well, I just left everything at the defaults.

Thanks to you and Devils.